Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 279 284
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -85
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 481 551 737
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.07% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.16% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 205 286 489
10th Percentile £41,475 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,495 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £96,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £61,750
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.26% +2.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,136 47,352 64,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.03% 91.66% 88.75%
Number of salaries quoted 30,240 22,667 50,432
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 2 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +10 428 £75,000 +11.11% 251
London +87 245 £85,000 +6.25% 125
UK excluding London -77 175 £62,500 -3.85% 162
Work from Home +11 172 £75,000 +15.38% 173
South East -21 53 £57,500 -11.54% 63
North of England -26 41 £76,250 +8.93% 36
Midlands -35 36 £65,000 +4.00% 22
West Midlands -3 24 £57,500 -11.54% 15
North West +3 22 £77,500 +10.71% 21
Yorkshire -9 18 £62,500 +21.95% 11
East of England +25 17 £60,100 -17.10% 23
South West -37 14 £62,500 -3.29% 6
Northern Ireland -3 11 £75,000 +26.20% 1
East Midlands -31 10 £80,000 +33.33% 7
Wales +6 4 £61,001 +2.64% 5
Scotland -23 3 £42,000 -29.33% 12
North East -12 1 - - 4

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.74%) Confluence
2 3 (0.62%) CMS
2 3 (0.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.42%) CICS
3 2 (0.42%) MTS
4 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.21%) Drupal
Applications
1 17 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.83%) Trello
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.12%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.04%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.83%) Shopify
5 3 (0.62%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.21%) Magento
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (13.10%) SaaS
2 55 (11.43%) AWS
3 48 (9.98%) Azure
4 24 (4.99%) Power Platform
5 19 (3.95%) Pulumi
6 17 (3.53%) GCP
7 16 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (2.70%) GitHub
9 12 (2.49%) H2O.ai
9 12 (2.49%) OpenShift
10 11 (2.29%) PaaS
11 10 (2.08%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (1.25%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.83%) Collibra
13 4 (0.83%) Google Analytics
13 4 (0.83%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 3 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (0.62%) Serverless
15 2 (0.42%) Azure AI
15 2 (0.42%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.20%) Broadband
2 10 (2.08%) HTTP
3 8 (1.66%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.25%) RTP
4 6 (1.25%) WAN
4 6 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (1.25%) Wireless
5 5 (1.04%) LAN
6 4 (0.83%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.62%) Multicast
8 2 (0.42%) 5G
8 2 (0.42%) ATM
9 1 (0.21%) 4G
9 1 (0.21%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.21%) GPRS
9 1 (0.21%) Intranet
9 1 (0.21%) LTE
9 1 (0.21%) Modbus
9 1 (0.21%) Network Security
9 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.03%) Relational Database
2 24 (4.99%) NoSQL
3 23 (4.78%) Power BI
3 23 (4.78%) RDBMS
4 19 (3.95%) Metadata
5 13 (2.70%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.46%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.46%) Tableau
7 6 (1.25%) SAP BW
8 5 (1.04%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.62%) Big Data
10 3 (0.62%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.42%) DB2
12 1 (0.21%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 31 (6.44%) JIRA
2 19 (3.95%) Jaeger
3 4 (0.83%) ERwin
4 3 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (0.62%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.21%) ER Studio
General
1 182 (37.84%) Finance
2 177 (36.80%) Social Skills
3 108 (22.45%) Marketing
4 97 (20.17%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (9.36%) Banking
6 42 (8.73%) Legal
7 41 (8.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 39 (8.11%) Financial Institution
9 35 (7.28%) Retail
10 26 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (4.99%) Law
11 24 (4.99%) Manufacturing
12 22 (4.57%) Digital Economy
13 20 (4.16%) Public Sector
14 18 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
16 16 (3.33%) Electronics
17 11 (2.29%) Publishing
17 11 (2.29%) Telecoms
18 10 (2.08%) Billing
Job Titles
1 129 (26.82%) Product Manager
2 76 (15.80%) Lead
3 61 (12.68%) Senior
4 31 (6.44%) Senior Manager
5 27 (5.61%) Product Owner
6 23 (4.78%) Senior Product Manager
7 22 (4.57%) Product Lead
8 20 (4.16%) Product Management Director
9 19 (3.95%) Digital Product Manager
10 16 (3.33%) Change Manager
11 12 (2.49%) Data Manager
11 12 (2.49%) Developer
11 12 (2.49%) Security Engineer
12 11 (2.29%) Development Engineer
13 10 (2.08%) Senior Development Engineer
13 10 (2.08%) Senior Software Development Engineer
13 10 (2.08%) Senior Software Engineer
13 10 (2.08%) Software Development Engineer
13 10 (2.08%) Software Engineer
14 9 (1.87%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
1 19 (3.95%) OpenTelemetry
2 16 (3.33%) REST
3 12 (2.49%) Keras
3 12 (2.49%) PyTorch
3 12 (2.49%) TensorFlow
4 11 (2.29%) YAML
5 6 (1.25%) .NET
6 4 (0.83%) FastAPI
6 4 (0.83%) Flask
6 4 (0.83%) Node.js
7 3 (0.62%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.62%) EDI
7 3 (0.62%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (0.62%) React
7 3 (0.62%) Vue
8 2 (0.42%) Next.js
8 2 (0.42%) PySpark
9 1 (0.21%) OAuth
9 1 (0.21%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 88 (18.30%) Product Ownership
2 52 (10.81%) Onboarding
3 39 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
4 28 (5.82%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.12%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.29%) Security Posture
6 11 (2.29%) Social Media
7 10 (2.08%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.66%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.46%) IoT
11 6 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.25%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (1.25%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.04%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.04%) Data Fabric
12 5 (1.04%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.83%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.57%) Linux
2 19 (3.95%) Unix
3 5 (1.04%) Windows
4 2 (0.42%) zOS
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (51.77%) Roadmaps
2 199 (41.37%) Agile
3 138 (28.69%) Product Roadmap
4 107 (22.25%) Product Strategy
5 105 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
6 95 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 95 (19.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 81 (16.84%) Mentoring
8 80 (16.63%) Information Security
9 78 (16.22%) AI
9 78 (16.22%) Analytics
10 74 (15.38%) User Experience
11 63 (13.10%) Decision-Making
12 59 (12.27%) Product Vision
12 59 (12.27%) Project Management
13 56 (11.64%) Business Development
14 54 (11.23%) Coaching
15 53 (11.02%) Computer Science
16 52 (10.81%) DevOps
17 51 (10.60%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 50 (10.40%) Python
2 36 (7.48%) Java
3 35 (7.28%) SQL
4 23 (4.78%) Go
5 21 (4.37%) JavaScript
6 19 (3.95%) Bash
7 11 (2.29%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.04%) C#
9 3 (0.62%) C++
10 2 (0.42%) COBOL
10 2 (0.42%) JCL
10 2 (0.42%) PHP
10 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.21%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.21%) R
11 1 (0.21%) Scala
11 1 (0.21%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 107 (22.25%) Degree
2 49 (10.19%) Master's Degree
3 42 (8.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (7.28%) Security Cleared
5 21 (4.37%) AWS Certification
5 21 (4.37%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.87%) MBA
8 7 (1.46%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.46%) PMP
9 5 (1.04%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.83%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.62%) CSPO
11 3 (0.62%) HNC
12 2 (0.42%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.42%) CISM
12 2 (0.42%) CISSP
13 1 (0.21%) CFA
13 1 (0.21%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.24%) QA
2 20 (4.16%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (3.33%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.49%) NCSC
5 12 (2.49%) NIST
6 6 (1.25%) GDPR
6 6 (1.25%) ISO 20022
7 5 (1.04%) IFRS
7 5 (1.04%) SLA
8 4 (0.83%) PMO
9 3 (0.62%) ISO 8583
9 3 (0.62%) SEPA
10 2 (0.42%) COREP
10 2 (0.42%) FINREP
10 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.21%) GMP
11 1 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 24 (4.99%) Docker
2 3 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.62%) vSphere
3 2 (0.42%) RACF
4 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (4.99%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.78%) Terraform
3 19 (3.95%) Ansible
3 19 (3.95%) Argo
3 19 (3.95%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.95%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (8.32%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.86%) Google
3 19 (3.95%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.33%) Databricks
5 12 (2.49%) Dell
5 12 (2.49%) NVIDIA
6 11 (2.29%) SAP
7 8 (1.66%) Adobe
7 8 (1.66%) Oracle
8 7 (1.46%) Foundry
9 6 (1.25%) Zoho
10 4 (0.83%) Sage
10 4 (0.83%) YouTube
11 3 (0.62%) Apple
11 3 (0.62%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.62%) CQG
11 3 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.62%) Reuters
11 3 (0.62%) Tenable
11 3 (0.62%) Trayport